Monetizing Firefox Extensions

I pull in a steady stream of trafic of people looking for a way to export firefox extensions. The solutions is of course more extensions (go have a read :-) ). That’s all good and well, but I’ve been thinking on ways to monetize that type of trafic. The problem is that these particulatr searchers have a quite well defined need: exporting their extensions. No need to offer them a Google referral programme like this:

I’ve been trying with adsense units too, but they don’t convert either. I’m not into prOn or poker – and so I decided to try affiliating for a hosting company I’ve been looking at: AN Hosting. They have pretty cheap hosting and they support the wordpress community (woot). There’s one click wordpress installation and so on and so forth. I figured that people searching for firefox extensions would be more prone to be interrested in cheap web hosting than people browsing for say Foosball tutorials.

The sign up is easy and there’s a long range of banners, buttons and links for the affiliate marketer to frolic in. Go have a look at their affiliate program (oh – and that’s an affiliate link too :-) )

Anyways – here’s the banner from AN Hosting – not too pretty, but cheap it is:

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2 Responses to “Monetizing Firefox Extensions”

  1. Christian
    February 1st, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    One thing i would recommend you;

    You might want a Affiliate Link hider, like Affiliate Pro, or Affiliate Hide Link plugin for wordpress.

    It seems that a plugin like that, raises the CTR on aff. links.

    Just a free advice!

  2. PÃ¥l
    February 2nd, 2008 at 9:22 am

    Cool, thanx Christian – will give it a spin.

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